Carrol
bitch wrote:
>
> i got to 'historical residue' and i thought: what does 'institutional'
> mean? oppression is different than repression? hmmm. federated?
> decentralized? anarcho-syndacalism? creative? what? I'm not an artist. I am
> an auto mechanic. I want to turn wrenches and make a decent buck. Fuck art!
> fucking jargon. can't they leave a guy alone to just enjoy his godamned
> greasy engines? and 'historical residue"? what the fuck? just a load of
> fucking jargon. he really ought to learn to speak clearly.
>
> shorter chomsky: ok ok. i don't want to be accused of sexism, so i won't
> say it's secondary, i'll just ramble. I think economic institutions are
> more powerful and more important to fight than, say, the way conceptions of
> psychiarty and what counts as mental health can hold a great deal of power
> over people's lives. yea yea yea fags and lezbeans are always portrayed as
> crazed murderers in popular film and television, but class war! class war!
> we'll worry about that later.
>
> does chomsky know the difference between repression and oppression? i'm
> sure he does, but has he ever explained it? because you have to wonder if
> he's ever read anything on the topic. he uses the two terms and then acts
> like he doesn't really mean what leftist generally mean by oppression: the
> way social norms turn out to be reproductive of social inequality is what
> oppression and oppressive institutions are all about. So when he says
> oppression he's signalling he 'gets it' but he apparently doesn't because
> he goes on to suggest that this isn't all fired important. it's the
> economy, stupid!
>
> and to dismiss foucault's task as somehow philosophical and abstract...
> foucault was talking about real things with real people being thrown in
> mental insitutions, criminalized, and murdered by the state for fuck's
> sake. and feminists who worked int he same tradition were talking about
> women made to take valium for twenty years b/c they were labeled mentally
> unhealthy when they complained of what friedan called the feminine mystique.
>
> but it's the economy stupid!
>
> let's move straight to anarcho-syndicalism without asking the hard
> questions of how we might just carry right into that society a world where
> women might still get drugged up disproportionately or a world where people
> *still* hold dismissive views of whatever ain't hetrosekshule. they look
> progressive, even radical, and smell like progressives and radicals. but
> don't be confused: if they look progressive, smell progressive, then they
> ARE progressive!
>
> garshes. garshes. lawdy me o my.
>
> i mean: it' skind of fucked up to not care about this shit if you're into
> anarcho-syndacalism b/ec you aren't aware of the way power is operating
> elsewhere, beyond the market and state. TG anarcho-syndaclists caught klew!
>
> "You know how it is, come for the animal porn,
> stay for the cultural analysis." -- Michael Berube
>
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